The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is recent police activity in Mason County: Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024: 12:21 a.m., (Mason County Sheriff’’s Office), a 32-year-old Twin Lake woman was arrested following a traffic stop on two outstanding misdemeanor warrants issued in Newaygo and Muskegon counties, Deren and…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 32-year-old Mason County jail inmate, who is a habitual offender, faces multiple charges for allegedly bringing fentanyl into the jail and furnishing it to another inmate who nearly died after taking the drug last November. Travis Michael Gale of Oceana County faces charges of delivery/manufacture of cocaine, heroin or another narcotic less…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 32-year-old Traverse City man pleaded guilty during a pretrial in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Oct. 29, to first-degree retail fraud and third-offense habitual offender. Dustin Douglas Clark, who is free after posting 10 percent of a $7,500 bond, faces a one-year jail sentence in exchange for his plea. “The offer…
By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A jury acquitted a 31-year-old man of a third-degree child abuse charge in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court Friday, Oct. 25. It took the jury two hours of deliberations to render its verdict following a three-day trial for Cody Michael DeRooy, said his attorney Andrew LaPres. He was arraigned on the felony child…
The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. LUDINGTON — A 29-year-old Byron Center man was arrested for disorderly conduct and fraud following a 911 call “of a subject attempting to cash a fraudulent check at West Shore Bank,” stated Cpt. Michael Haveman of the Ludington Police Department. He was lodged…
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